Stevens v. ICE (N.D. Ill.) -- determining that: (1) plaintiff failed to exhaust her administrative remedies with respect to several requests for immigration-related records to two DHS components; (2) ruling that seven agencies performed adequate searches for immigration-related records, rejecting plaintiff’s contentions that the agencies were required to describe its general file systems and that the government’s declarations failed to specify the search terms used; (3) USCIS properly withheld records pursuant to Exemption 3 in conjunction with the Immigration and Nationality Act; ICE properly relied on Exemption 4 to withhold contract pricing information from order for services and supplies; USCIS and the Executive Office for Immigration Review properly withheld records pursuant to Exemption 5; ICE and EOIR properly withheld third-party information pursuant to Exemption 6; ICE properly withheld records pursuant to Exemption 7(C); and the Department of State properly relied on Exemption 7(E) to withhold records related to a passport fraud investigation.

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